> When C code is run in machines capable of failing with gruesome death, its unsafeness may indeed result in gruesome death.
And yet, it never does. It's been powering those types of machines likely longer than you have been alive, and the one exception I can think of where lives were lost, the experts found that the development process was at fault, not the language.
If it was as bad as you make out, we'd have many many many occurrences of this starting in the 80s. We don't.
em3rgent0rdr|1 month ago
lelanthran|1 month ago
And yet, it never does. It's been powering those types of machines likely longer than you have been alive, and the one exception I can think of where lives were lost, the experts found that the development process was at fault, not the language.
If it was as bad as you make out, we'd have many many many occurrences of this starting in the 80s. We don't.